Arachnodactyly

A congenital condition in which the fingers and toes are long and thin.


Congenital condition in which the fingers and/or toes are long, thin, and spiderlike.


Abnormally long and slender fingers and toes: usually associated with excessive height and congenital defects of the heart and eyes in Marfan ‘s syndrome.


Arachnodactyly, or marfan’s syndrome, is a congenital condition characterised by extreme length and slenderness of the fingers and toes and, to a lesser extent, of the limbs and trunk; laxity of the ligaments; and dislocation of the lens of the eye. The antero-posterior diameter of the skull is abnormally long, and the jaw is prominent. There may also be abnormalities of the heart.


Spider fingers; a state in which fingers and sometimes toes are abnormally long and slender.


A medical condition distinguished by the presence of unusually elongated and slender fingers and toes.


Arachnodactyly refers to the condition characterized by the presence of long, slender, spider-like fingers and toes. While it can occur spontaneously, arachnodactyly is commonly associated with Marfan syndrome, an inherited connective tissue disorder.


A congenital deformity of the fingers and toes resembling the appearance of spider legs, characterized by unusually long and slender digits.


 


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